Hello again, everyone! Within the last couple of hours or less, breaking news has been reported on yet another temple of the Church. At some point this morning, the First Presidency confirmed the location of and shared an exterior rendering for the Davao Philippines Temple. The temple, first announced in October 2018, will be built on on a 2.7-acre site at Ma-a Road and Anahaw Road, Bgy. Ma-a, Davao City 8000, in that city. Plans call for a two-story structure of approximately 18,450 square feet. While the existing meetinghouse on that site will be removed, during the construction process, a new meetinghouse will be built in conjunction with that project, alongside housing facilities for the temple presidency members and for patrons travling to the temple. For the time being, the project leaders will be working with city leaders through the approvals process. A groundbreaking date for the temple has consequently not yet been set.
An interesting anomaly relative to this announcement is that, six months before this temple was announced, during President Nelson's first General Conference as the prophet, he had announced a temple for Cagayan de Oro in the Philippines. It isn't often that, when two temples have been announced for the same nation in fairly close proximity, that the latter one that was announced becomes the first to have any official information confirmed.
But it looks as though the Church's plan is to not only ensure that, as referenced by Elder Bednar in General Conference last April, the Church will break ground for 18 temples this year, but that no matter how many temples actually do have their groundbreaking ceremonies this year, the Church is laying the groundwork towards a similar queue to keep temple construction going strong in 2021 and the years that follow.
Of course, this means that I will again have to update my temple files, which I was planning on doing before this announcement was released. I am pleased to see the Church continuing to provide all such updates.
For myself, I do continue to monitor all breaking developments, be they temple-related or otherwise, and will be sure to pass word of those along to you all as any such updates cross my radar That does it for now. Any and all comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated, on any post at any time, as long as such comments are made in accordance with the established guidelines. Thank you for the privilege of your time. If you enjoyed what you read here and would like to stay informed of newly added content, please feel free to subscribe. Until my next post, I wish each one of you all the best and pray that the Lord will bless you all in everything you do.
Hello again, everyone! Roughly one hour ago, the Church News finally provided coverage on the release of the location information and exterior rendering for this temple:
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My thanks once again to you all.
And the Church News has shared the next article in the ongoing "Women of Covenant" series:
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My thanks once again to you all.
Here is an article about the first devotional of the BYU-Provo Fall Semester 2020:
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Thanks again, everyone!
And BYU-Hawaii's President and his wife, President John S. and Sister Monica Kauwe, offered the first devotional address of the semester. Given ongoing restrictions due to COVID-19, the devotional addresses originated from Salt Lake City:
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My thanks once again to you all.